Robot projects are often evolutionary dead ends, with the software and hardware they produce disappearing without trace afterwards. Common causes include dependencies on uncommon ...
Paul M. Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale
— To explore the design of politeness in embodied conversational agents and social robots from the perspective of user studies, a case study based on a psychological experiment w...
HRI researchers interested in social robots have made large investments in humanoid robots. There is still sparse evidence that peoples' responses to robots differ from their...
Aaron Powers, Sara B. Kiesler, Susan R. Fussell, C...
– Effective communication between a person and a robot may depend on whether there exists a common ground of understanding between the two. In two experiments modelled after huma...
Sau-lai Lee, Sara B. Kiesler, Ivy Yee-man Lau, Chi...
Abstract— This paper presents the results of an experiment in human-robot social interaction. Its purpose was to measure the impact of certain features and behaviors on people’...
Allison Bruce, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Reid G. Simmon...